[Businessmtg] FW: Announcements Digest for Monday March 14, 2022

[Steve Rankin]

Hi Tammy and everyone else,

I'll talk more about this announcement after we're done with the election process of the List Administrator.  

Hugs,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Businessmtg On Behalf Of Tammy Louise
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:01 AM
To: steve at serenitysys.com
Cc: ASP Business <businessmtg at asp-afg.org>
Subject: Re: [Businessmtg] FW: Announcements Digest for Monday March 14, 2022

Thanks for the great news, Steve. When appropriate, will you please share with us what this actually means to our group? In lay man's terms...

Exciting!
Tammy

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:48 PM Steve Rankin <steve at serenitysys.com> wrote:

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> This came in this evening and I thought y’all would enjoy hearing it 
> ASAP.  The bottom line is that we are even more integrated with the 
> world-wide fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups.
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> Back to our routine programming – namely Lynne’s resume.
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> Hugs,
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> Mar 14, 2022 11:33 AM
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> VALI FAYEN
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> We are excited to announce completion of the first phase of our 
> upgrade to fully integrate Al-Anon Family Groups meeting 
> electronically technologically with physical groups. The upgrade is 
> scheduled to be implemented on Saturday, March 19th, which will result 
> in planned outages for AFG Connects and the Online Store minimally for 
> the morning. We appreciate your planning accordingly.
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>  The changes we are implementing primarily impact Area Group Records 
> Coordinators (AGRCs) who will now be able to edit the new Participants 
> field and will be able to run a report of groups meeting 
> electronically within their Area, if any, through the Online Group 
> Records web application (OGR). The changes will be accompanied by 
> revised Group Records forms for groups meeting physically. These will 
> be available in all three languages on al-anon.org starting Monday, 
> March 21st. Detailed information on the forms and OGR changes will be posted in the AGRC AFG Connects community.
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>  The upgrade also includes more significant changes impacting the 
> database itself and WSO maintenance screens. These changes provide the 
> foundation for future, likely substantial, user-interface and improvements to OGR.
> These will provide AGRCs the ability to maintain groups meeting 
> electronically in their Areas. In the meantime, the WSO will continue 
> to be responsible for registering and updating information related to 
> these groups. The WSO will be rolling out revised Group Records forms 
> for groups meeting electronically shortly. We will keep you posted.
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>  A big thank you to all the WSO Staff involved in completing this 
> significant effort.
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> Vali Fayen
> Executive Director
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